Example sentences of "more [adv] than [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For on the outside , they live far more lavishly than do ‘ ordinary ’ criminals , and experience a correspondingly greater contrast between ‘ normal ’ and prison life … |
| 2 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 3 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 4 | Another complicating factor ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ) is that immature predators digest prey more thoroughly than do adults . |
| 5 | Pound wrote to Frank Morley in 1937 , but for all his growing concentration on European civilization , Eliot saw more clearly than Pound the dangers of Fascism . |
| 6 | We furthermore demonstrate that plexiglass in combination with lead shields 32 P induced Bremsstrahlung more efficiently than plexiglass alone . |
| 7 | Sony , the system 's developer , reckons that pictures carry more efficiently than print the increasing weight of information people have to assimilate . |
| 8 | Thus the parents can reward more often than punish which will offset any of the avoidance side-effects of punishment that the restraint method may create . |
| 9 | They too pandered to protectionist sentiment — though more cautiously than do Bill Clinton and Mickey Kantor . |
| 10 | In view of the current state of the art I can do no more here than suggest that alternative approaches are surely possible . |
| 11 | I can do no more here than say that I believe that they illuminate some of the processes whereby females come to wish to disassociate themselves from mathematics and other scientific and/or technical activities . |
| 12 | The breakdown in sales of the VATable goods we stock fluctuates much more dramatically than do sales of books ; this is largely because of seasonal changes in demand , the start of an academic term for students , and the summer tourist season . |
| 13 | In other respects as well , choice theories confine the scope of legal liability more narrowly than do the ‘ harm to interests ’ theories . |
| 14 | The planet Mercury orbits the Sun more closely than do any of the others . |